Word: putnam
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...Putnam Avenue resident reported that at 6 p.m. his ex-roommate ripped the kitchen stairs with a knife and threatened to stab...
Polling sites include the Agassiz School at 29 Garden St., King School on Putnam Ave., Peabody School on Linnaean St., Putnam Apartments at 2 Mt. Auburn St., Youville Hospital on Hovey Ave. and on-campus polling stations at Quincy House and Gund Hall...
...give my whole life's work a B," he concluded in his talk at the Brattle, "which is better than I ever got in college."Photo courtesy of G.P. Putnam's SonsWho's the cat who won't back out when there's rationality all about? Kurt...
Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake (Putnam; 219 pages; $23.95) is a salvage job, a reprocessing of what the author calls the "best parts" of an unpublished novel that did not work. This revision is a mix of autobiographical bits, plot concepts, barbershop cynicism and romantic idealism, all loosely tied together by a standard science-fiction device: on Feb. 13, 2001, a quirk in space-time flips the calendar back 10 years to Feb. 17, 1991. From that moment, everyone in the world is fated to repeat the decade in every living detail...
...either airbrushed from America's literary canvas or painted with hackneyed strokes. While a smattering of books have attempted to redress this problem, among them Jill Nelson's 1993 memoir, Volunteer Slavery, the lives of these women beg for further elaboration. Happily, Nelson's new memoir, Straight, No Chaser (Putnam; 225 pages; $23.95), and Gwendolyn M. Parker's Trespassing (Houghton Mifflin; 209 pages; $23) provide some of the missing detail...